we’re taught to hold hands
when we cross the street
or walk with our mothers in parking lots or
navigate crowds with a friend and
don’t want to come out alone
hold hands with whomever is closest
when the power goes out
when the sirens come near
when the moving of men marches
silences into the corner
hold hands when
they come calling,
when they threaten,
“this is necessary to
teach you a lesson” or
“this is necessary
to protect you”
hold hands when we stand still,
when we walk, when
we run
when they tell us to
surrender
when they tell us
to do anything
hold hands when we
fall from the sky,
with …

Connection Point Director Yasmina Mrabet interviewed award-winning teacher John Hunter about the lessons and inspiration behind his groundbreaking World Peace Game, discussed in his new book World Peace and Other 4th-Grade Achievements. His answers are below.
What inspired you to create the World Peace Game? Did you see a gap in the learning process when it came to teaching about global conflict?
It was my first teaching job – the very first thing I did as a teacher 35 years ago. It came about because my supervisor didn’t tell me what to …

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Editor in Chief
“Even when my mind is fully made up, I don’t think I’m going to be turning up at either kind of rally.”
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Stereotypes are regrettable. And life is complicated. So most of us simplify our mental lives with pre-made pictures of certain categories of others.
I admit I do. I picture an anti-abortion demonstrator as a young man with short, neatly combed hair and slightly wild eyes, or an older woman with sensible shoes and a tight mouth. I picture pro-abortion demonstrators as college-age women and their pleasantly scruffy …

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